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Downloading it, does anyone know how does Debian work on a MacBook Air 7,2?

by milankragujevic 9y ago

LeoPanthera 9y ago
Probably best to run it in a VM.
skynode 9y ago
Why not run it on a new box?
- milankragujevic 9y ago
  I don't understand what you're trying to say. I want to use Debian as my daily OS because I don't like how macOS does things, and I got a MacBook because they are good quality and have a good warranty and I can run all 3 platforms (Win+Lin+Mac) on it if I so desire.
  - skynode 9y ago
    You like Apple's hardware but not its OS. I think there are better compromises out there, but of course, feel free to do your thing.
    - milankragujevic 9y ago
      I don't wanna argue, but keep in mind that I'm in Serbia and that I bought the MacBook with a "special financing plan" which the Apple reseller offered but not any of the generic stores that carry such ultrabooks as the XPS 13 or the Spectre...
      - jameskegel 9y ago
        I am not sure I understand
        gkya 9y ago
        It was economically more plausiblefor him to buy the macbook than sth else.
        gcb0 9y ago
        apple reseller made it easy for them to finance a non upgradeable machine, that they now have to use for years to come.
        s_kilk 9y ago
        Basically their material circumstances have lead to a particular outcome.
lebrad 9y ago
I've been running Debian on a MacBook Pro 11,1 for a couple of years and everything works great. The 7,2 Air has similar hardware and I would expect that you'll have a good Debian experience. Battery life is slightly worse than running macOS but performance is slightly better.
alexhornbake 9y ago
I'm running 4.6 kernel "testing" on a MacBook Air 7,2 as my daily driver. It is rock solid. Wifi, Backlight brightness control and FaceTime camera will not work out of the box, however they can be made to work. Expected to spend a weekend getting it all working. It's not for everyone, but if you want to better understand Linux, running it everyday is a great way to be fully immersed. It's also nice to have a desktop environment (openbox/lxde) that only uses 263MB ram on startup instead of a massive OS full of features I do not need or use. So yea, let's say the machine rarely swaps. This is by no means exhaustive, but some things that I'm running and work well for me: How to setup rEFInd for dual boot http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ Wifi driver (using non-free Broadcom-sta driver) https://wiki.debian.org/wl https://wiki.debian.org/wl Backlight driver https://github.com/patjak/mba6x_bl https://github.com/patjak/mba6x_bl FaceTime driver https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie Happy hacking!!

Downloading it, does anyone know how does Debian work on a MacBook Air 7,2?

LeoPanthera 9y ago

Probably best to run it in a VM.

skynode 9y ago

Why not run it on a new box?

milankragujevic 9y ago
I don't understand what you're trying to say. I want to use Debian as my daily OS because I don't like how macOS does things, and I got a MacBook because they are good quality and have a good warranty and I can run all 3 platforms (Win+Lin+Mac) on it if I so desire.
- skynode 9y ago
  You like Apple's hardware but not its OS. I think there are better compromises out there, but of course, feel free to do your thing.
  - milankragujevic 9y ago
    I don't wanna argue, but keep in mind that I'm in Serbia and that I bought the MacBook with a "special financing plan" which the Apple reseller offered but not any of the generic stores that carry such ultrabooks as the XPS 13 or the Spectre...
    - jameskegel 9y ago
      I am not sure I understand
      - gkya 9y ago
        It was economically more plausiblefor him to buy the macbook than sth else.
      - gcb0 9y ago
        apple reseller made it easy for them to finance a non upgradeable machine, that they now have to use for years to come.
      - s_kilk 9y ago
        Basically their material circumstances have lead to a particular outcome.

lebrad 9y ago

I've been running Debian on a MacBook Pro 11,1 for a couple of years and everything works great. The 7,2 Air has similar hardware and I would expect that you'll have a good Debian experience. Battery life is slightly worse than running macOS but performance is slightly better.

alexhornbake 9y ago

I'm running 4.6 kernel "testing" on a MacBook Air 7,2 as my daily driver. It is rock solid. Wifi, Backlight brightness control and FaceTime camera will not work out of the box, however they can be made to work. Expected to spend a weekend getting it all working. It's not for everyone, but if you want to better understand Linux, running it everyday is a great way to be fully immersed. It's also nice to have a desktop environment (openbox/lxde) that only uses 263MB ram on startup instead of a massive OS full of features I do not need or use. So yea, let's say the machine rarely swaps. This is by no means exhaustive, but some things that I'm running and work well for me: How to setup rEFInd for dual boot http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ Wifi driver (using non-free Broadcom-sta driver) https://wiki.debian.org/wl https://wiki.debian.org/wl Backlight driver https://github.com/patjak/mba6x_bl https://github.com/patjak/mba6x_bl FaceTime driver https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie Happy hacking!!